WHAT:   Great Plains DB2 Forum Spring Meeting

 

 WHEN:   Friday, May 9th   8:00 AM – 4:00 PM

         

 WHERE:  Peter Kiewit Lodge

                  Eugene T. Mahoney State Park

                  Interchange 426 from Interstate 80

 

 COST:     Registration fee is $200.00 per person.

 

Registrations must be received by Wednesday, April 30th, 2008 to guarantee seating and class materials.

 

NOTE:   One-day State Park permits can be picked up at the main gate.  You do not need to sign in, just let the guard know that you are attending the Great Plains DB2 Forum meeting. If you have a State Park annual pass, you DO NOT need to stop to let the guard know you’re attending the meeting or to pick up a one-day permit.

 

AGENDA: 

  7:45 AM – Registration

  8:15 AM – Announcements

  8:20 AM – Seminar begins - V8/V9 Application/Database Challenges and Solutions

  Noon – Break for lunch

  4:00 PM – Seminar adjourns

 

ATTIRE:  Business casual

 

MESSAGES:  During the meeting, messages may be left at the Lodge main desk, (402) 944-2523.

 

Motels near Mahoney State Park

1.      Super 8, 14355 S. Hwy 31, Exit 432, Gretna, NE, 402-332-5188

2.      Suburban Inn, 11023 Sapp Brothers Drive, I-80 & Hwy 50, 402-332-3911 (www.suburbaninn.com)

3.      Days Inn, 10560 Sapp Brothers Drive, Omaha, NE, 1-800-DAYS-INN

4.      Best Inn, Hwy 50 & I-80, Omaha, NE, 402-895-2555

5.      Ben Franklin, I-80 South 144 Street, Exit 440, Omaha, NE, 402-895-2200

6.      Comfort Inn, I-80 & Hwy 50, Exit 440, Omaha, NE, 402-896-6300

7.      Ramada Limited, I-80 & Hwy 50, Exit 440, Omaha, NE, 402-896-9500

8.      Budget Inn, 9305 S. 145th St., Omaha, NE, 402-895-2555

Nebraska Crossing Outlet phone number: (402) 332-5188

 

  

Web site:  http://greatplainsdb2forum.org/

 

 

Future DB2 Forum Meeting Schedule:

·         Bonnie Baker, Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008

·         Free IBM Data Governance Road Show, Tuesday, June 17, 2008

 

 

 

 


Speaker: Susan Lawson

Susan Lawson is an internationally recognized consultant and lecturer with a strong background in system and database administration. She currently works with several large clients to help development, implement and tune some of the world’s largest and most complex DB2 databases and applications. She also performs Performance Audits for many clients to help reduce costs through proper performance tuning. Her other activities have included authoring articles, presenting at user group meetings, and authoring white papers. She is an IBM GOLD Consultant for DB2 and z/Series, and has authored the IBM ‘DB2 for z/OS V8 DBA Certification Guide’, DB2 for z/OS V7 Application Programming Certification Guide’ and ‘DB2 9 for z/OS DBA Certification Guide’ - 2008. She is also the co-author of several DB2 books including ‘DB2 High Performance Design and Tuning’ and ‘DB2 Answers’.

 

 

Seminar: V8/V9 Application/Database Challenges and Solutions

 

In this seminar we will look at some of the performance features in V8 and how they have been successfully used in our applications and databases to meet some of our current performance challenges. Those challenges, of course, being performance and availability. We will discuss some of the things we still desire in terms of application and database performance and take a look at V9 to see what features are available to further improve our performance and availability of our applications. We will look at how we may take advantage of those features.

 

V8 SQL/Application Performance Features

   Multi-Row Fetch      

   Recursion 

   Common Table Expressions 

   INSERT within a SELECT

   Scalar Fullselect

   Distribution Statistics

   XML Scalar Functions

   Multiple Distinct

   Matching Predicates

   Parallelism and Sorting

V8 Database Performance Features  

   Volatile Tables

   Data Partitioned Secondary Indexes

 

 

V9 SQL/Application Features

    UPDATE/DELETE with a SELECT

    Optimistic Locking    

    Index on Expression

    Histogram Statistics

    Order By and Fetch First in Subselect

    Instead of Triggers

    INTERSECT and EXCEPT

    Skip Locked Data

    Caseless Expressions

    Native SQL Procedures

    XML Support

    Star Joins Performance

    New Functions

 

 

 

 

V9 Database Performance Features

   Better Index Page Splitting

   Index Compression and Large Pages

   DPSI Enhancements

   Clone Tables

   Append on Insert

   Truncate Table

   No Log Tables

 

Discuss the importance of smart SQL and applications

Discuss V8 SQL and application features and show examples

Discuss V8 features for database performance

Discuss challenges still remaining in V8 SQL/applications and databases

Look at some new V9 SQL/application and database features and their benefits

 


Great Plains DB2 Forum Spring Meeting Registration Form

 Friday, May 9th, 2008

 

Registrations must be received by Wednesday, April 30th, 2008 in order to ensure class materials. Seating is limited; registrations will be considered on a first-come, first-served basis.

 

To register on-line go to: http://www.greatplainsdb2forum.org/html/registration_0.html

 

Payment and registration is through a secure connection using PayPal. A PayPal account is not required to utilize this payment method. Visa, MasterCard, American Express, Discover and Electronic Checks are accepted for payment in PayPal. If registering through PayPal, no further action is required.

 

If using Cash or Check, mail or fax registration forms to:

 

Carol Rosenow                       Fax:  402 422-2080

Qwest Communications         Office: 402 422-4030

1299 Farnam St, 7th floor       Email:   carol.rosenow@qwest.com   

Omaha, NE 68102

 

 

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